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Originally posted by JungleDisturbia
I obviously can't speak for the general public, but my general understanding about their perception of Gaga is that her image has suffered greatly due to the BTW era and her attitude, whereas during TF/M she was someone cool and interesting. Obviously a lot of people thought she was "weird" during that peak, but in comparison to what they think now, it was hardly anything.
I'm not even trying to say Gaga isn't successful. Just when comparing the two most recent eras, they both did drastically different things for their respective artists.
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Maybe that's so, but the way I see it, Gaga is still Gaga to the general public. She had been certifiably established by BTW so of course she isn't going to have the same amount of interest as she had during TFM.
Also we should compare the content of the eras. Gaga had already done the bubblegum pop, childish happy music by the time Katy had debuted California Girls (and we all know that's a sound alike to Tik Tok). Where Katy's music got "younger" (TEENAGE dream after all) and her videos were obviously geared to 12 year olds, Gaga grew up, got more musically aggressive and definitive with her sound as well as taking on issues that went past the subject of Friday's party.
I'm not saying Gaga is "better" for this, but BTW seemed to be more about the music, and the marketing came afterwards, whereas TD seemed like the music was half the marketing.